Asheville Urban Farms grows vegetables, minds

Asheville Urban Farms works to spread its model of hydroponics to planet's food insecure regions

10:05 PM,
Feb. 28, 2014

Sherrye Coggiola watches as Joey Cagle, checks on basil being grown hydroponically at the Asheville Urban Farms facility, in a warehouse off Amboy Road. Coggliola and her husband, Anthony, want to take their model of hydroponic farming to the corners of the Earth, to help solve food insecurity and agriculture problems.

Written by

Anthony Coggiola and his wife, Sherrye, own Asheville Urban Farms, a hydroponic farm that fits plenty of growing vegetables into a comparatively small space.

Although the farm produces some food for local restaurants - the Coggiolas' own Biltmore Village eatery, The Cantina, has been a beneficiary - it was always intended to be an exhibition farm for other countries and agricultural innovators in the U.S. ...